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Challenging this notion is small (1,050 students), Quaker-founded Earlham College in Richmond, Ind. Its pres ident, Landrum Boiling, observes that "our justification for existence and for charging the relatively high fees we do must be that we do a superb job of teaching." Toward that end, Earlham got a $20,000 grant from the Danforth Foundation of St. Louis, under which Earlham teachers can invite experts in their fields to sit in their classrooms, observe their techniques and assess their abilities...
...Earlham program is voluntary and the experts' evaluations are not confided to administrators-"this is a confidential relationship, not one involving an administration spy," says Boiling...
...wedge in the classroom door, letting in an air of openness that can become contagious. Already, three Earlham teachers have applied for similar help, and meanwhile two of them Psychology Lecturer Richard Johnson and Chemistry Lecturer Gerald Bakker, have adopted a mutual-aid program of their own, each monitoring the other's classes...
...EARLHAM COLLEGE CONCERT CHOIR, Leonard C. Holvik '40, Director, in a concert of warks by Bach, Brahms, Hindemith and Menotti. Paine Hall...
...Earlham (911)................ Richmond, Ind. ...................Quaker...